Hunter's Moon Launches on PS5: Price, Rating and Release Time

Twin Swans' debut game, Hunter's Moon, is out now exclusively on PlayStation 5. The first-person folk-horror title puts you inside a single night in a 17th-century English village, playing an accused "witch" who has to slip past her hunters rather than fight them. It arrived October 25 in North America and October 26 everywhere else PlayStation sells the game, right on cue with the real Hunter's Moon in the night sky.

01What Hunter's Moon actually is

You play Lilith Thorne, a woman accused of witchcraft and marked for capture over the course of one night. According to Twin Swans' own PlayStation Blog post, three separate hunters are stalking the village and surrounding moors looking for her: the Witchfinder General, the local magistrate, and a huntsman hired to track her down. There's no combat system and no weapon to swing — survival here is entirely about reading the environment, staying out of lantern light, and knowing when to move.

The village itself is populated by over 100 fully voice-acted characters, including costumed "mummers" who wander the paths performing folk rituals and telling pieces of the village's history as Lilith passes them. Twin Swans has described the structure as a single continuous night rather than a level-based game — there's no save-and-reload loop between discrete missions, just Lilith, the dark, and however far she gets before the sun comes up.

02The real history behind the hunt

Hunter's Moon doesn't name its setting as a specific real village or year, but the role of "Witchfinder General" is a direct reference to real English history. The title was most famously held by Matthew Hopkins, who styled himself that way during the East Anglian witch trials of the 1640s and is blamed for a significant share of England's witch-hunt executions during the period. The broader panic Hunter's Moon draws on — accusations built on rumor, informal "swimming" and pricking tests, and village-level fear overriding due process — lines up with the historical record of the early modern European witch trials more generally, where tens of thousands of people, overwhelmingly women, were tried and executed across roughly two centuries. Twin Swans isn't claiming documentary accuracy, but the game's premise — an accused woman with no legal recourse, hunted by men acting with the village's blessing — is grounded in a real and well-documented period of persecution rather than invented folklore.

03Release date, price and platforms

Hunter's Moon is a PS5 console exclusive — there's no PC, Xbox or PS4 version announced. The PlayStation Store lists the game at $19.99 in the US, with a worldwide release timestamp of October 26, 2026 at 12:00 AM UTC, which lands as October 25 in North America once local time zones are accounted for. The store listing also confirms PS5 Pro enhancements and DualSense haptic feedback support.

04How the eavesdropping mechanic works

The feature Twin Swans is leaning on hardest is eavesdropping. The PlayStation Blog post describes an immersive-theatre-inspired system where Lilith can press herself against cottage windows and doors to listen in on the villagers inside. What she overhears isn't just flavor text — conversations can hand her a warning about a hunter's position, practical counsel on where to hide, a sacred item, or a folk song that actually helps her survive later in the night. It's framed as the main tool for turning the village from a maze of threats into something closer to a puzzle you can read, provided you're patient enough to stop and listen instead of just running.

05ESRB rating and content warnings

Hunter's Moon carries an ESRB Teen rating, with content descriptors for Mild Violence, Sexual Themes, and Use of Alcohol and Tobacco, according to its PlayStation Store listing. The store page also lists a fairly deep accessibility suite for a first-person stealth game: adjustable subtitle size, basic stick-inversion options, and controls that don't require rapid or simultaneous button presses, motion input, or controller vibration to complete the game.

06The team behind it

Twin Swans is a new studio founded by writer-director Alicia Contestabile, who previously worked on The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe. The rest of the credited team has shipped The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and Signalis — a mix of narrative horror and branching-choice pedigree that lines up with what Hunter's Moon is going for. Hunter's Moon is also the studio's first release, which makes a same-day PS5 Pro enhancement and a fully voiced cast of this size a fairly ambitious opening swing for a new team.

“What if the most terrifying thing in our world is not monsters or magic, but other people?”Alicia Contestabile, Writer-Director, Twin Swans

07Watch the announce trailer

Twin Swans and PlayStation published the original announce trailer back in early September, showing Lilith's moonlit flight through the village, glimpses of the mummers, and brief looks at her three pursuers. It's still the clearest look at the game's tone ahead of launch day.

Hunter's Moon — Announce Trailer, uploaded by PlayStation on September 3, 2026, almost two months before today's launch.

Hunter's Moon doesn't have a sequel or post-launch content plan publicly announced yet. For now, it's a self-contained, single-night story — log in, pick a night, and see if Lilith makes it to sunrise.